Travelling around Europe

On 2007-03-30, Valmir wrote:
On 30 mar, 11:09, "Iceman" wrote:

Your plan mostly sounds about right. I assume those numbers don't
include travel days. How do you plan to get around? I assume you
will mostly take trains but fly one-way to and from Berlin?

No, I intend do it all by train. Do you think it's not a good idea?

You will need to carefully plan the logistics, as you're covering
quite a lot of ground.

If you do this by train, there's no way around doing Firenze - Barcelona;
that's at least 17 hours, which will have an impact on the time available
at either end. Why not take Ryanair between Pisa and Girona?

Madrid - Porto is 12 hours. Also quite lenghty. At some point you'll need to
leave Portugal, if to Berlin that's 40 hours, if Paris 20 hours. Paris to
Berlin is 9 hours (which makes this ^^^^^^^^ look very odd).

Go to bahn.de and check how long each journey takes, and consider how
much time that leaves you in each destination. I think you'll find that
at least for the journey away from Portugal, it would be foolish not
to fly. There are low cost flights between Porto and Liverpool, so you
could do Italy-Portugal-Liverpool-London-Paris-Berlin.

Well, I havent did my schedule yet. I need to discuss some more with
my wife, she wants to go to Vigo to meet some aunts and uncles..
I will report my jumps as soon as possible, but your tips as very
usefull. I'll consider flying some longer distances..

On 1 abr, 17:07, Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
On 2007-03-30, Valmir wrote:

On 30 mar, 11:09, "Iceman" wrote:

Your plan mostly sounds about right. I assume those numbers don't
include travel days. How do you plan to get around? I assume you
will mostly take trains but fly one-way to and from Berlin?

No, I intend do it all by train. Do you think it's not a good idea?

You will need to carefully plan the logistics, as you're covering
quite a lot of ground.

If you do this by train, there's no way around doing Firenze - Barcelona;
that's at least 17 hours, which will have an impact on the time available
at either end. Why not take Ryanair between Pisa and Girona?

Madrid - Porto is 12 hours. Also quite lenghty. At some point you'll need to
leave Portugal, if to Berlin that's 40 hours, if Paris 20 hours. Paris to
Berlin is 9 hours (which makes this ^^^^^^^^ look very odd).

Go to bahn.de and check how long each journey takes, and consider how
much time that leaves you in each destination. I think you'll find that
at least for the journey away from Portugal, it would be foolish not
to fly. There are low cost flights between Porto and Liverpool, so you
could do Italy-Portugal-Liverpool-London-Paris-Berlin.